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Che Guevara and Fidel Castro fishing 1960
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Gangsters (yakuza) in Kamagasaki district, Osaka. Photo Ed van der Elsken, 1959
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"Broke, baby sick, and car trouble!" Missouri family of five broken down on U.S. Highway 99 near Tracy, California. Photo by Dorothea Lange. February 1937
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Polish women led to execution site in a forest near Palmiry village close to Warsaw. Woman in the foreground was identified after the war by her checked coat as Janina Skalska, age 38, miller's wife from Piaseczno. Palmiry, Poland, 1940.
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German Schienenzeppelin locomotive train, designed and built in 1929 by aircraft engineer Franz Kruckenberg was powered by an aircraft BMW V12 motor and propeller. It could attain speeds of 143 mph, setting the land speed record for a petrol powered rail vehicle.
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9-year old Eunice Winstead Johns and her husband, 22-year-old Charlie Johns, Sneedville, Tennessee, United States, 1937
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A photo of the aftermath of the bombing of Canadian Pacific Air Lines Flight 108. All 23 people on board were killed. The bombing was the first attack on civil aviation in North America, Quebec, 1949 .
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Titanic's Lifeboat 6 approaches the RMS Carpathia. It had room for 36 more people. April 15, 1912.
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The United States Board of Tea Experts assembled for the first time since 1942 to set up minimum standards for the eight to ten different types of tea that will be coming into the country for the following year, Feb. 17, 1947
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